The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 10:30 am at the Fort Jefferson Memorial Park, Visitor’s Center, US 51, Wickliffe, Kentucky.This will be Society’ first meeting of the new year as it begins its sixty-sixth year of service to the Jackson Purchase region. The speaker will be Bill Mulligan, JPHS President, and his topic will be “The Beginning of the End: The Western Rivers’ Significance in the American Civil War.” Mulligan will discuss the pivotal role control of the western rivers – the Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Cumberland – played in the initial…